An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.; . vPJ* *:«sa , Hp^pBJrj^&T^^y JgppBJ W *.* H V V / ff 1 ?...:.•/..??.-.:..:;?.-. ROUND THE WORLD. 463 both confifted of boards of carved work, of which the defign 1770- March. was much better than the ex
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.; . vPJ* *:«sa , Hp^pBJrj^&T^^y JgppBJ W *.* H V V / ff 1 ?...:.•/..??.-.:..:;?.-. ROUND THE WORLD. 463 both confifted of boards of carved work, of which the defign 1770- March. was much better than the execution. All their canoes, ex- 1 ,—«a cept a few at Opoorage or Mercury Bay, which were of onepiece, and hollowed by fire, are built after this plan, andfew are lefs than twenty feet long : fome of the fmaller forthave outriggers, and fometimes two of them are joinedtogether, but this is not common. The carving uponthe {tern and head ornaments of the inferior boats, whichfeem to be intended wholly for fifhing, confifts of thefigure of a man, with a face as ugly as can be conceived,and a monftrous tongue thruft out of the mouth, withthe white fhells of fea-ears ftuck in for the eyes. Butthe canoes of the fuperior kind, which feem to be their menof war, are magnificently adorned with open work, and co-vered with loofe fringes of black feathers, which had a moll;elegant appearance: the gunwale boards were alfo fre-quently carved in a grotefque tafte, and adorned wi
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